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Microsoft has about 150k employees and recommended all work from home if they can. Google is around 100k. I don't know who's bigger than Microsoft that also d
by unoti 7y ago
Microsoft has about 150k employees and recommended all work from home if they can. Google is around 100k. I don't know who's bigger than Microsoft that also did this.
- jacquesm 7y agoTough act to follow for Wallmart... The tech industry has a huge advantage here. But there are jobs where you'd have the possibility to do this in industries that will take some re-arranging to make it work. Legal and financial for instance, call centers (some technical issues), most design and creative work. The impossible ones are anything involving care, production and logistics. Even retail could in principle be done but it would require a massive shift on the part of the consumer. Going shopping is very much ingrained and retooling that industry for home delivery is neither fast nor simple when done on a massive scale.
- phreeza 7y agoMany production and logistics workplaces can probably implement distancing policies. Care, not so much...
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe problem is, Walmart can't shut down. They're the only grocery/drug store left in a lot of smaller towns. People depend on them for necessities. They can shut down most of their departments, the non-essential ones, but they're gonna need the grocery and pharmacy sections to remain open.
- dx034 7y agoThey don't need to. If office workers stay home and people can go shopping outside of rush hour, grocery workers should be mostly safe. Especially Walmarts tend to be rather large, it's certainly avoidable to be in close contact with customers there.
- w0m 7y agoMicrosoft only recommended WFH in SF/Seattle so far, other sites waiting for it.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoWFH is definitely in effect for Microsoft China...
- __s 7y agoI'm in Vancouver & have been supported in following the Seattle advice